s guest."
--_Shelley, Adonais_.
David's Harp 396 H.T., 152 G.B.
"Tune, to please a peasant's ear,
The harp a king had loved to hear."
--_Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel_.
Deep Calleth unto Deep. 61 S.A.
"Deep calling unto deep."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
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Defrauded of His Birthright. 60 H.T.
"An American child who is allowed to grow up
without a knowledge of the Bible is defrauded of
his birthright."
--_Youth's Companion_.
Den of Thieves. 237 L.J.
"What makes a church a den of thieves?
A dean and chapter, and white sleeves."
--_Butler, Hudibras_.
Devils in Swine. 139 L.J.
"Bass. If it please you to dine with us!
Shy. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the
habitation which your prophet,
the Nazarite, conjured the devil into."
--_Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 1:3_.
Do Men Gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? 109 G.B.
"Conceits himself as God that he can make
Figs out of thistles."
--_Tennyson, The Last Tournament_.
Dust Thou Art, and unto Dust shalt Thou Return. 21 T.J.
"Dust to dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came."
--_Shelley, Adonais_.
Earthly House. 452 S.A.
"All the angels that inhabit this temple of the
body appear at the windows, and all the gnomes
and vices also."
--_Emerson, Essay on Love_.
Easier for a Camel to Go through the Eye of a Needle. 212 L.J.
"It is as hard to come as for a camel
To thread through the postern of a needle's eye."
--_Shakespeare, Richard II 5:5_.
Eat, Drink, and be Merry. 212 L.J.
"I built myself a lordly pleasure house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell;
I said, 'O soul, make merry and carouse,
Dear soul, for all is well.'"
--_Tennyson, The Palace of Art_.
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Eden. 19 T.J.
"He who is wearied of his village plain
May roam the Edens of the world in vain."
--_Holmes, Po
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